A Carrs Safeway grocery store is set to move into the space where Sears is located in Midtown Anchorage, the company that owns the property confirmed Monday.

Carrs Safeway signed a lease in December to occupy about 65,500 square feet of space in The Mall at Sears, New York City-based Seritage Growth Properties said in an emailed statement. Sears is set to close in April.

Retail chain Guitar Center also signed a lease in September for about 16,500 square feet of the Sears space.

"We are pleased to have two highly productive retailers join our planned redevelopment of the Sears store," the statement said.

Seritage owns the property where Sears and Nordstrom Rack are located.

Both Carrs Safeway and Guitar Center will open in mid-2019, a spokesman for Seritage said in an email.

The location — just across Seward Highway from a Fred Meyer store — will mark a return for Carrs Safeway to The Mall at Sears, where it closed a location on the opposite side of the mall just a few years ago.

More changes are coming to the mall.

"Our plan involves bringing additional best-in-class retailers to the property, which will be enhanced through facade improvements and site upgrades," Seritage's statement said.

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